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From: tm@polari.UUCP (Toshi Morita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Ensoniq, Defending II
Message-ID: <1983@polari.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 90 12:37:19 GMT
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Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944
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Keywords: Ensoniq Apple II


> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <1981@polari.UUCP> tm@polari.UUCP (Toshi Morita) writes:
>-The Ensoniq DOC has 32 oscillators. If monophonic sound is bearable then you
>-can assign all 32 oscillators to a single channel and run 32 tones. Apple
>-recomments that programmers write for a stereo machine and so only 16
>-simultaneous tones are possible (2 DACs per tone, one for each channel).
>-Apple reserves the last pair of oscillators for system usage, so 15 pairs are
>-usable under GS/OS.

>I didn't think stereo had anything at all to do with the oscillator
>pairing.  There is one pair per channel, and stereo cards typically
>route even-numbered channels to one side and odd-numbered channels
>to the other.

Nono...the "oscillator pairs" that was mentioned is non-related to the
Ensoniq's various dual oscillator modes where an one oscillator automagically
trips off the other oscillator after it's finished with its waveform.

The previous post refers to needing two oscillators to output stereo sound. For
example, if a game wanted a gunshot sound in both the right and left channels
simultaneously it would need to allocate two oscillators, one for the left
channel and one for the right.


jac@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross) writes:

>as far as "defending a good computer" goes, this is all bullshit.  It
>changes nobody's mind and just clutters up the newsgroup.  You aren't
>going to have your opinion changed and neither is the other guy.  Your
>defense is not interesting, not wanted, useless, and generally not read.
>It just wastes bandwidth and takes up space.

Amen.

-          Toshi Morita, Software Engineer @ Taito Software, Inc            -
-          Currently programming on the Nintendo  (1.8 Mhz 6502!)           -
-         Disclaimer:  My opinions are my own, not the company's.           -
-     "Say yo, say rap, say Taito??" (We need a new ad agency! Augh!)       -